HIGH SEAS: Uranium: The Israeli Connection

In the foggy dawn of Nov. 17, 1968, the
German-built freighter Scheersberg A (gross tonnage: 1,790 tons)
chugged out of Antwerp harbor with a Liberian flag flying from its mast
and 560 drums of "yellowcake"a crude concentrate of uraniumpacked
beneath its decks. The ship never reached its declared destination of
Genoa, Italy. Instead, after 15 days at sea it docked at the Turkish
port of Iskenderun on Dec. 2, riding high in the water. Its strategic
cargo200 tons of uranium, worth $3.7 million, that could potentially
be used for nuclear weaponshad vanished....